JPS62155100A - Apparatus for producing molded sugar - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing molded sugar, and in particular, a molded sugar manufacturing apparatus that can simultaneously obtain a plurality of molded sugars arranged to correspond to packaging modes. This relates to sugar manufacturing equipment.

[Prior art and its problems]

The conventionally known method for producing molded sugar consists of an upper mold and a lower mold, each of which has a number of recessed spaces for desired molding inside the overlapping part, which are then placed together. The most basic method was to use a "mechanical press-in method" in which sugar was polymerized in this manner and the molding space of the polymerized portion was filled with sugar from the outside of the mold.

However, in the case of these conventional methods, the method of filling sugar into the mold was to press the sugar supplied from the upper surface of the mold with a roller or other appropriate pressing device and press it into the mold. If the inside of the mold is complex, for example, if the inside of the mold has a delicate shape that becomes sharper toward the tip, even if you try to force a press-fit, it will not work. Before the press-fitted sugar reaches the sharp tip mentioned above, a hardened part occurs at the intermediate part or the sugar injection port part, and no matter how much pressure is applied, the sugar cannot reach deeper than that part. It had the disadvantage of generating

As a way to solve these drawbacks, sand PM to be filled
Japanese Patent Publication No. 56-5084 introduced a method of blowing and filling the raw material into the desired mold while entraining the raw material with compressed air.
It became known through the technology described in Publication No. 0.

However, even with these methods, the sugar raw material to be molded is taken out through a quantitative filling cylinder that takes out a fixed amount of sugar, and then the tip of this quantitative filling cylinder is inserted into the forming hole of the mold. Since it is based on a method in which the sugar raw material taken out by the above method after fitting is blown into a mold for molding together with high pressure air, i.
It is necessary to go through the following steps: taking out the sugar with the filling tube, ii. fitting the filling tube into contact with the mold, and iii. blowing out the sugar inside the filling tube with high-pressure air. Both the method and its equipment had the disadvantage of being complicated. In addition, when using these methods, while moving one filling cylinder,
Because it is necessary to take out the raw sugar and fill it into molds, it is impossible to produce molded sugar of multiple colors at the same time in one process. If you want to make an array of multiple colors, molded sugar in several colors is manufactured one by one in advance, and if necessary, the manufactured molded sugar is manually adjusted to match the packaging form. There remains the inconvenience of having to arrange them by

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention takes into consideration the above-mentioned circumstances and attempts to deal with these problems, and it is possible to obtain molded sugar of desired multiple colors at the same time in one production process, and the produced sugar is It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for producing molded sugar that can produce molded sugar in an arrangement according to the packaging mode in a packaging container.

[Key points of the invention]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of sugar press-in devices using high-pressure air are attached to one mold, and sugar can be press-fitted simultaneously from each of the above-mentioned large-scale devices. It is said that

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, an example of implementation of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of sugar press-fitting mechanisms A...A, and a coupler mechanism B for collecting the sugar supplied from the sugar press-fitting mechanisms A...A into one and filling it into a mold for molding. , and a conveyor mechanism C that supplies and takes out molds for molding to and from the coupler mechanism! It consists of

The sugar press-in mechanism A includes a pumper 2 having a built-in sugar stirring device 1, a sugar fixed-rate feeding device 3 slidably attached to the bottom surface of the pumper 2, and a sugar pumping mechanism A having a stirring mechanism 4 inside as required. It is constituted by a high pressure jetting mechanism 5.

The above-mentioned hopper 2 is for storing and stirring an appropriate amount of sugar for supplying the sugar to the fixed-rate feeding device 3, and has a large hopper (not shown) and other supplies on its upper surface. It is what makes the mechanism continuous.

The metering feed device 3 is for feeding the appropriate amount of sugar to the high-pressure jetting mechanism 5 to be fed into one mold, and is directed by the switch/switch mechanism or other appropriate signals to perform expansion/contraction production. It is made to slide back and forth by expanding and contracting the cylinder arm 6. (In addition, when the high-pressure sugar ejection mechanism 5 of the above-mentioned fixed amount delivery device 3 is operating, it is important that it closes the lower surface of the hopper 2).

The sugar high-pressure ejection mechanism 5 has an intake port 51 for high-pressure air supplied from an air compressor (not shown) etc. near the top of a hollow cylindrical body, and the bottom of the stirring mechanism 4 A large number of sugar spouts 53 . . . 53 are formed in the contacting portion of the bottom plate 52 . The above-mentioned sugar spout ports 53...53 each have a large number of holes, each individually,
The sugar spout 5 is configured to open and close depending on the shape of the mold (the number of sugars to be molded).
It is desirable to be able to open only the necessary number of holes among 3...53. 7...7 is sugar spout 53.
. . 53 is a guide tube for guiding the sugar ejected from the mold to the mold, and its lower end is connected to the blowing holes 81...81 of the coupler mechanism B which is in contact with the mold D 5.

Coupler B is attached to the upper surface of the mold, especially the upper mold, and the lower mold D.
Among the mating molds constituted by
However, the blowing guide hole D3 drilled on the top surface of the upper mold
...It is formed to match D3. Note that only one coupler B is used for one mold, and the guide tubes 7...7 connected to the upper surface
are separately connected to sugar press-in mechanisms A...A which supply sugar of a desired color corresponding to the pattern, character, etc. to be arranged.

The recess feeding mechanism C includes a feed cylinder 9 that feeds a mold for molding so as to be located on the lower surface of the coupler B, and an elevating mechanism that feeds the mold to the coupler B while holding the mold fed by the feed cylinder 9. Cider 1
0, and when an instruction signal is given by an appropriate instruction signal mechanism (not shown), the lifting cylinder 10 holding the molding mold moves up and down so that it comes into contact with the lower surface of the coupler B. It is.

In the figure, 11 is a shutter mechanism provided on the bottom surface 22 of the coupler mechanism B, which disconnects the excess raw sugar located on the top surface of the mold and the sugar inside the mold by sliding the cylinder 12. In addition, the raw sugar remaining in the shutter mechanism 11, which serves to smooth the bottom part of the sugar filled in the mold (the surface part of the blowing guide port D3), is molded in the next process. It is fed into the mold and consumed.

The apparatus of the present invention constructed as described above operates as follows.

First, prior to driving the device, the forming sand 2s...S is laid out to form a desired character or pattern.

In the above layout, for example, as shown in Fig. 6, in the case of molded sugar to be used as gifts for celebrations, letters such as rjuj are represented by an array of red molded sugar, and the outside is white. It may be configured as a design surrounded by molded sugar.

When arranging as above, one of the sugar press-in mechanism A... is used to insert white sugar into the part where the white molded sugar is arranged. This purpose can be achieved by supplying red sugar from the other sugar press-in mechanism A to the red molded sugar arrangement part that makes up the letters.

As for the above specific means, each press-fitting mechanism A...
- This is achieved by connecting the guide tubes 7...7 pulled out from A according to the desired character arrangement or background arrangement.

The apparatus provided as described above operates as follows.

A fixed amount of raw sugar supplied from a pumper 2 having an agitating device 1 is supplied to a high-pressure jetting mechanism 5 by telescopic sliding of a cylinder arm 6. When raw sugar is supplied, a conveying mechanism C
The mold sent into the mold is pushed up to the lower surface of the coupler mechanism B by the lifting cylinder 10, and operates to align the lower surface of the coupler mechanism B with the upper surface of the mold.

When the contact between the coupler a la B and the mold is confirmed by an appropriate confirmation device (not shown) through the above operation, high pressure air is blown from the high pressure air intake port 51 for a certain period of time in accordance with the confirmation signal. When the above-mentioned high-pressure air is blown, the raw sugar in the high-pressure spouting mechanism 5 is discharged through a large number of sugar spouting ports 5 formed in the bottom plate 52 of the mechanism.
3...53 into the mold via the guide tubes 7...7 and the coupler mechanism B, allowing the desired filling to be performed accurately. In addition, when the above-mentioned filling is completed, by sliding the shutter mechanism 11, the surface of the sugar inside the mold can be smoothed.

When the above-mentioned filling process (high-pressure blowing process) is completed, the supply of high-pressure air to the high-pressure air intake port 51 is stopped, and at the same time, the elevating cylinder 10 descends, and the mold that has finished descending is sent forward by the feeding cylinder 9. be done. (Refer to No. 51) The sugar in the mold that has undergone the above steps is dried by a known method to form a finished product.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The effects of the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

■ If you prepare multiple sugar press-in mechanisms A...A and supply raw sugar of different colors to each press-in mechanism A...A, the mold will be a very ordinary one. It is also possible to form a display while filling the interior with desired characters, patterns, etc. at the same time.

■ Since the press-in mechanisms A...A of the raw material sander store are each independent, even if sugar of different colors is supplied, the colors will not be mixed and the pattern will be arranged in a clearly distinguishable manner. I can do it.

(2) Since raw sugar is filled into the mold by high-pressure jetting, even if the sugar to be molded has a sharp shape, it can be easily and accurately manufactured.

■ Prepare a large number of press-fitting mechanisms A using high-pressure air, and simply connect each press-fitting mechanism via guide tubes 7...7 to display desired characters, patterns, etc. in the mold. It has the excellent feature that it is possible to do this, and the manufacturing method is extremely simple.

■ It is possible to arrange letters and other patterns simply by providing a plurality of high-pressure air press-in mechanisms A...A and using each press-in mechanism properly. It is also possible to arrange molded sugar of one color by supplying raw sugar of the same color to the two.

■ It is now possible to instantaneously produce the desired molded sugar in a form that matches the packaging style, and instead of manufacturing multicolored molded sugar in advance and packing them into boxes by hand, unlike in the past. These complicated operations can be completely omitted, and since raw sugar is not touched during production, extremely hygienic molded sugar can be produced.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figures show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a front view, FIG. 2 is an enlarged front view with a part cut away showing the main part, and FIG.
The figure is a partially omitted front view showing when sugar is being filled, Figure 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing the state of contact between the mold and the coupler, and Figure 5 is the view of the coupler and mold at the end of filling. FIG. 6 is an enlarged sectional view showing the relationship, and FIG. 6 is an enlarged plan view showing the sugar filled in the mold. A...Sugar press-in mechanism, B...Coupler mechanism, C.
...Conveyance mechanism, ■...Agitator, 2...Hopper,
3... Fixed bond feeding device, 4... Stirring mechanism, 5...
・High pressure blowout mechanism, 51...High pressure air intake, 5
2... Bottom plate, 53... Sugar spout, 6... Cylinder arm, 7... Guide tube, 81... Blowing hole, 9... Feeding cylinder, 10... Lifting cylinder, 11 ...Shack-512...Cylinder, D...Mold, Patent applicant Kiubu Shoji Co., Ltd. Figure 1 Figure 3

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) The upper part of the main body has a high-pressure air intake, and the bottom plate is equipped with multiple sugar press-in mechanisms each having a large number of sugar spouts. A molded sugar manufacturing device configured to continuously supply sugar to molds and to simultaneously fill a large number of molded sugars. (2) The molded sugar manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a coupler having a shape that can match the mold is attached to the lower end of the guide tube. (3) A molded sugar manufacturing apparatus in which raw sugar of different colors is supplied to a plurality of sugar press-in mechanisms.